Raspberry Pi LESSON 44: Getting Ready to Master the Raspberry Pi Camera

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With this class, we will begin the next major section of this class. We will be using the Raspberry Pi camera, and today's class describes the strategy we will be taking in future lessons, and the reasons for that strategy. Hope you will understand better the different options we have, and why we have choses the option we have.
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[@cbrombaugh]

Thanks for taking your time and effort to prepare us for settling up the camera, Paul. Your patience is amazing.

[@MrCameronMoore]

Hi Paul, this lesson updates us on two major changes, the move to a 64 bit operating system and the new camera library, so it wasn’t a waste of time.

[@biancaar8032]

Please dont say sorry for doing this for 1 class , this is a life saver ... as it put several concepts in place for us

[@biancaar8032]

And please make a playlist on node mcu 32 as well ,it would be very useful for students like me!!

[@premprasad3511]

This is the best course on raspberry pi and Paul is a citizen of the world

[@jeraldgooch6438]

Thank you for taking the time to update the course to the new OS! I suspect that this to a lot of research as well as trial and error to get right. Much, much appreciated!

[@ScottSummerill]

Talking to the future. I love it! Can't wait to see what do with 20-ish camera lessons.

[@W3ASR]

Thank you for all of your lessons and hard work. I am learning a lot from your channel.

[@tntragan]

Always good to lay a good foundation. I didn't feel it was a waste of time. I'm ready to roll with the new lessons.

[@LorenBurdette]

Really looking forward to this series of lessons!

[@larryplatzek9017]

Paul I am glad to see where we are going!

[@charlotteswift]

Hi Paul. We're all looking forward to your series of lessons on the Pico but it's much more important to concentrate on your health. Hope you get well soon.

[@pooppyybuhhole]

Just found your channel after having recently purchased my first RPi4. Will be binging this serious this week. Thank you for your work!

[@paulmcwhorter]

Enjoy!

[@woodturner1954]

An extra video here or there to explain details is vastly superior than us missing some detail and wondering what we missed in a follow on video.

[@saumitit944]

Thank you so so much Mr. Paul I couldn't be more grateful! I'm a college student and I have a project to present where I chose the topic "Face Detection using OpenCV with Raspberry Pi" and I'm so glad I found this video(and this gem of a channel) in my research.... I initially developed the project on my personal system and later decided to port it to Raspberry Pi. However, I encountered some challenges when copying the .venv environment. Despite both my original system and Raspberry Pi running Linux, the ARM architecture posed differences since mine is x86_64. I attempted to install the opencv-contrib-python package using pip on the default 32-bit OS, but I couldn't find any prebuilt binaries. It seemed that the focus has shifted to newer 64-bit OS, as you mentioned. Hence, it would then start Compiling the code from source and building the wheel... which took several hours and even after that I encountered persistent errors that I tried to but just couldn't resolve. Eventually, I switched to the Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit version, and the transition was incredibly smooth. I didn't need to update mirrors or modify any /boot/config file to get VNC working and I was able to install the python modules :) Unfortunately, now my original code wouldn't work with OpenCV :(( I initially thought it might be a hardware issue but libcamera functioned perfectly Thank you for guiding me to use picamera2 and making those changes in my code... Now I have succeeded in using my program in Raspberry Pi 64-bit latest OS :)) Thank you for guiding me to use picamera2 and implementing the necessary changes in my code. As a result, I have successfully achieved running my program on the latest Raspberry Pi 64-bit OS and I'm so happy with the outcome! There's still a lot more work to do now, but going forward, it will be a lot of fun! Your help has been invaluable thanks again! Love from India!

[@rienwijnsma3410]

Good video, thanks. For those who can not wait, the Magpi magazine ( at least the Dutch one ) had a great article about the PI camera recently.

[@krishnapranav9123]

Thankyou Professor Paul!

[@jonathanr4242]

Thanks for sharing

[@stephenlightkep1621]

Thanks Paul. I love it! I am 8 months behind and I found that my Raspberry pi 4B Was too new for your visual python lesson. Which was a bummer. So I am hoping to have better luck with the camera.

[@spencervdp4912]

Hey Paul, for my college project i was gonna build an automatic drilling robot that simply detects small black dots that you mark on a metal backplate and drills out each marking. I only found one video about my exact idea called automatic drilling by point detection.

[@michealmyers4515]

Hey Awesome video Paul...Thanks again! By the way...can we transfer this image to our system wirelessly or something by some means?...Thanks

[@alexandregnpaie5410]

im way back a arduino but i decide to come to yours newest video to thank you for your time and you excellent way of teaching where can we show our gratitude. ? i will not nedd to take high end class so if i can give some someting i will !

[@deema.a9479]

thanksss!!

[@DrDave327]

Awesome lesson, Paul! Time well spent. I need to comment that RPi doesn’t make it very easy to select 64bit OS. First, it recommends 32bit selection, then you have to find the 64bit OS selection deeper in the choices. One more thing to everyone: make sure you choose the correct keyboard. Somehow I chose English UK, which caused my Wi-Fi password not to work, due to the keyboard to have some of the special characters to be different..

[@alanabela1900]

Thank you!

[@paulmcwhorter]

Welcome!

[@BrittmyDog]

hi i have the zero2 w and the cam v3 can i also use the cv2

[@gabemorris1231]

Is there any additional benefit to using the picamera2 module? I'm a fan of reducing dependencies, so I lean more toward using the first method, which was opencv alone.

[@paulmcwhorter]

If you go that way, you lock yourself into an obsolete operating system. It can not be done on Bullseye.

[@donjosedelrosario6490]

very helpful video!!! By the way, is it okay to use pi cam and usb webcam at the same time?

[@vaughntaylor2855]

Paul Since when do you ever waste anyone's time...No, Great intro, thank you! God Bless and may Father heal you quickly!

[@larryplatzek9017]

yes brian show your install of bullseye!

[@martabaldassarri2355]

Hi, I nstalled openCV but I get an error when I type import cv2. Could you please help me with that? Thank you

[@danielsaenz5570]

We're finally going to use the pi camera!! 🥳🥳🥳

[@ramonedrozojr.768]

I am excited!!!

[@qzorn4440]

another wonderful Raspberry Pi how to video. My new toy is an Orange pi 5 which does not have anywhere near the OpenCV examples as the Raspberry. 😎 Thank you.

[@paulmcwhorter]

Have fun!

[@doverivermedia3937]

Paul. I'm thinking to jump into this series from the beginning as the later camera work is super relevant to me. Question: is Bullseye 64 bit backwards compatible to your lessons 1-45 ? Or do I need to downgrade to buster to follow the lessons ... thanks.

[@paulmcwhorter]

You really need to start the lessons with me on Buster, and then upgrade to bullseye when I do. If we are not on the same versions, things will not work the same in all cases.

[@doverivermedia3937]

@@paulmcwhorter ok great. Thanks Paul.

[@unclelelax8341]

OSError: libbcm_host.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory i do have this problem, any fix?

[@tanjiro3285]

lovw youuu sir

[@mightytmz933]

Hey Paul, Can you make a set of videos on the ESP8266 Arduino Board? It cost 5 dollars each and it supports wifi and internet.

[@paulmcwhorter]

No but am making lessons on the Raspberry Pi Pico W which is very similar and in the same price range.

[@danrichardson3203]

I'm very excited about interacting with the camera, but even more so with opencv. I'm supposing the countdown leadin used for your lessons is created with opencv. I'd like to see a lesson or two on how one might set about creating one. Also, there is no such thing as a silly cat video.😁

[@smitt76]

Nice lawn Paul. Is that zoysia grass?

[@Wythaneye]

Not a waste of time at all, Paul! Moving from one OS to another is kind of a big deal, and worth its own lesson. If anyone needs help getting Bullseye set up and configured after install, here's my video that I did WAY back at the start of this series. It's the same setup I'm currently running and will be continuing to run through the camera lessons. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKGqanyigLuip9E

[@radiotests]

I came for Arduino as the Pi is extinct now unless you drop serious money. I found your other channels and was sad to see they are static. 20 years ago my life was technology and mission. It's all gone now and I'm alone. Just passing time with electronic gadgets now.

[@paulmcwhorter]

Hope you check out the new Raspberry Pi Pico W upcoming class. The Pico W is available, and will be a great class. Check out one of my recent livestreams on the topic. Hey, you sound a little melancholily. How could your mission work really be gone? My other two channels are static, as I spend the time DOING missions and discipleship, and not so much talking about it. Same with farming. Basically fund my work with this channel, and that allows me to then do the other stuff.

[@henkoegema6390]

Isn't this relabeling old wine in new bottles?

[@henkoegema6390]

After watching the video it looks like it is new wine in new bottles. 😊

[@Nelia.]

Кто вам приходиться Рита это мама ваша?Моей бабушке исполнилось 90 лет в ноябре эттго года.Она живет на Украине!Я вашей маме написала в комент незнаю только смотрит она свои коментарии.?Она ведь имеет свой канал!

[@raelaughnan8568]

Paul, thank you so much for doing all of this. Sophomore mech. eng. trying to learn how to use raspberry pi from UW-Madison.

[@paulmcwhorter]

Thanks! Really appreciate it!

[@alldaypancakes7058]

Name=(input("What is you name sir: ")) listoftuff1=[] print("Welcome",Name,"to testing") listofnumbers=int(input("How many thing do you want MR ",Name)) for i in range(0,listofnumbers,1): listofstuff2=(input("Pleas tell me what you want you want sır: ")) listoftuff1.append(listofstuff2) print(listoftuff1) can same one tell me what i am doing wrong it just says = line 4 erorr listofnumbers=int(input("How many thing do you want MR ",Name)) TypeError: input expected at most 1 argument, got 2 i would be very happy if same one can help me i am using visial studio

[@DrDave327]

I am not at the computer to try this, but switch int and input: input(int(…

[@charlotteswift]

line 4 should be 'listofnumbers=int(input("How many thing do you want MR "+Name))' i.e. a '+' not a ',' hth

[@alldaypancakes7058]

@@charlotteswift thank you